It's been MONTHS since I've done any good programming in Mono/Gtk#! First I go to boot camp (three months), then I get a hernia at the end of that and have to stay in a Marine holding platoon while that gets fixed (three more months), and now I'm finally going to Marine Combat Training at Camp Lejeune, NC (another month), THEN I've got MOS school at Twentynine Palms, CA!

When in HELL am I ever going to have time to buy a system, install Gentoo on it (takes me about a week), and have fun with it?!

are you forcibly hold down there?_________________“You know all those extra lines of code that we sometimes refer to as bloatware. It's actually very important and efficient stuff. There is some very substantial functionality built into the operating system.” Laura DiDio

maybe you shouldn't do that 'i want to serve my country and god and all the farts by killing people' thing instead

Don't judge people too fast i mean...not everybody has the opportunity of doing anything else than joining the army, after all it pays the bills._________________It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function. - U.G. Krishnamurti

Guys, please get back on topic (which was ranting) a bit, we've had plenty of discussions about the US and their army and all that blah already - this is not one of them. Otherwise i'll have to split that stuff off, which is work, and that makes me irate. And we really don't want that, do we? _________________Dinosaur week! (Ok, this thread is so last week)

It's been MONTHS since I've done any good programming in Mono/Gtk#! First I go to boot camp (three months), then I get a hernia at the end of that and have to stay in a Marine holding platoon while that gets fixed (three more months), and now I'm finally going to Marine Combat Training at Camp Lejeune, NC (another month), THEN I've got MOS school at Twentynine Palms, CA!

When in HELL am I ever going to have time to buy a system, install Gentoo on it (takes me about a week), and have fun with it?!

FVCK!!!

If you have some Gentoo skills, isn't there any way the army can make use of them in some way? I know you've got this training, but whatever your career is, I'd think it'd be good to try to at least have it have something to do with something you like. I'm thinking maybe in terms of cyber warefare, or just working on some application for them? I know it's a bit of a long shot, but it'd be worth looking into.

maybe you shouldn't do that 'i want to serve my country and god and all the farts by killing people' thing instead

Can people give it a rest already? OMG, he just graduated marine bootcamp, he must be another brainwashed, baby-killing, biblethumping, greedy capitalist pig who will proceed to slaughter innocents the world over and spread the wrath of the great Satan!!!! God forbid someone join the armed forces! Just like all the other 300 million americans, he must be driving an SUV, eating his big macs, stroking off at night while dreaming of gunning down innocent women and children. I mean, thats all those nasty americans do right?

I realize this is OTW, but some of the remarks to the OP are just plain silly.

wswartzendruber-CONGRATS! Anyone who finishes that bootcamp is a badass in my opinion.